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‘Quit smoking’ app launched by ThaiHealth

Related Stories Thai Health Promotion Foundation (Thaihealth) has launched a mobile application, Thai Rai Khwan (Smokeless Thailand), designed to help tobacco smokers quit the harmful habit. Suthat...

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Wake up and smell the truth

Part of ‘Scene From A Wake’. During a recent press tour of “Scene From A Wake” by Anup Mathew Thomas, this year’s winner of the Han Nefkens Foundation-BACC Award for Contemporary Art, there wasn’t...

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Numthong Gallery

Through messages labelled on fabric, stickers and photos by sewing, artist Rossalin Garst’s “Line To Skyler” is a result of therapeutic art practice after a loss of her beloved dog Skyler. Sathorn 11...

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Inventors with a revved up edge

Right  Students from Rattanakosin Technical College spent over five months designing and making a prototype car that runs on a battery. What image comes to mind when you think of a car race? Perhaps...

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Thank the maker

In Chiang Mai on the last weekend of January, Thai makers gathered to share ideas and discuss how creativity can benefit local innovators and inventors in the digital era. The maker space movement is...

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Look who’s popped up — it’s LV

For the very first time in Bangkok, a Louis Vuitton pop-up store has landed in front of their shop in Siam Paragon’s Hall of Fame. Although shaped like a sleek cave filled with a selection of pieces...

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Just hop on down

To some she’s just a plain white bunny, to others she’s a prime example of minimalist art. But for six decades Miffy has been delighting young kids around the world, and now she’s getting a museum of...

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Calvin Klein and the New York capsule

One of the major menswear brands to opt for not bringing its full collection to the recent CFDA New York Fashion Week: Men’s, Calvin Klein nonetheless compromised by showcasing Italo Zucchelli’s autumn...

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Her madgesty cranks it up

Madonna kept her Thai fans waiting until 10pm on Tuesday night at Impact Arena – but then what was an extra hour or two after they’d already waited decades for a chance to see the Queen of Pop live and...

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Summer of solids 

Italian suit authority Canali has moved from its old home in Siam Paragon to a new space on the first floor of Emporium. Besides offering their Su Misura service, the new, glossy boutique features the...

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Don’t be afraid to have fun

Chinatown was part of her exhibition last year at WTF Gallery. With cartoons, it’s her recreation of incidents — with simple drawings and snappy dialogue — which draw our attention to the significance...

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Elephant entertainment is no laughing matter

Gilbert Sape, the Asia Pacific Wildlife Campaign Manager. Elephant ride tourist deaths in recent weeks have once again put the spotlight on the urgent need for Thais to stop using wildlife for...

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Entertainer. Provocateur. Revolutionary

Although Madonna is performing her Rebel Heart Tour across the globe in a six month-long campaign, Thailand is possibly one of the most appropriate of places to be hearing what the Queen of Pop has to...

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Documenting a murderous time

Against all odds, this strange, chilling and powerful film is opening in Bangkok and Chiang Mai cinemas today. The Act Of Killing is a 2012 documentary by US filmmaker Joshua Oppenheimer that revisits...

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Double-necked devilry

Ron Thal, who will perform in Bangkok tomorrow night at Whiteline on Silom, knew he wanted to be a rock musician after the first time he heard Kiss’ Alive! album. A year later he had a band with his...

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Asia inspired

Louis Vuitton’s menswear for this spring/summer is like a trip across Asia. Thanks to the brand’s heritage of travelling, where luggage was their main product, it’s a perfect excuse to tell stories of...

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SPINNING the changes

THE ONLY THAI DJ to have successfully made a name on the global electronic music scene, Nakadia, a farmer’s daughter from Nakhon Ratchasima, has performed at the Berlin love parade in front of more...

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Making DRACULA count

“THE STORY IS deeply spiritual and famous the world over,” says Paul Ewing, the artistic director of Ewing Entertainment Worldwide of his production of “Dracula: Blood Is Life”, which begins its...

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Whiff of revival

Besides typical red roses, little white dok rak or crown flowers equally symbolise love here in Thailand since rak translates as that four letter word. Along with mali (jasmine) and dok pood...

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The ultimate anti-hero

Ryan Reynolds as Deadpool. From the very opening minutes of the film, it is made abundantly clear that Deadpool — a character in the latest among Marvel’s long slate of upcoming superhero films — is...

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